Have you ever been in a situation that one of the database has been giving hard time! It may be the times that every DBA might go through this path without realising the root cause of the issue. The issue could be out of space on the drive where that database is located and further you might see the...

I was working recently with a customer who was looking to deploy a SQL Server 2005 cluster across 2 geographically dispersed sites using Windows Server 2008. They were looking to utilise the new clustering improvements in Windows Server 2008 to build a highly available SQL Server solution. The customer...

As promised by SQL Server Developmen team about SQL Server 2005 SP3 the public beta is now available for your action and set of tasks for your 2005 environment. So what this public beta provides, this is a rollup Quick Fix Engineering that will have all the work including from SP2 as well as addresses...

Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition Notification Contents: New FIX: A SQL Server Agent job that creates a ServerXMLHTTP object by using an ActiveX script remains in the Executing status and is never completed in SQL Server 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/kb...

The support policy for SQL Server running on virtualised platforms has now been updated to include support for SQL Server 2005 running on Hyper-V http://support.microsoft.com/?id=956893 Microsoft provides technical support for SQL Server 2005 and for SQL Server 2008 that are running in the following...

I felt like somehow I missed to post the availability of Cumulative Update package releases here and referring the last CU7_Update package blogpost now we have CU8 available for download if the specified problem occurs in your platform as per the KBA 951217 here. Obviously this is for the installations...

Are you desperate to get Relase To Manufacturing (RTM) release of SQL Server 2008? Well, long wait for SQL Server 2008 is nearly over. It is an official announcement that SQL Server 2008 is set to RTM'd during the month of August 2008, as per Bob Kelly, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Infrstructure...

SQL Server Reporting Services has been introduced in 2000 version but not catched within the user environment until the Reporting Services 2005 has been rolled out. In this regard administering a Reporting Services installation requires that you know how to perform routine maintenance tasks for server...